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Mean Quotes by Albert Camus
- As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
- To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
- There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being…
- Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies:…
- That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
- Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied…
- Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean…
- I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need…
- An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both…
- There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want…
- She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked…
- Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses…
- Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is…
- …there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the…
- Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But…
- No ends, simply means.
- A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the…
- What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what…
- But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
- In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone…
- As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find…
- At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively…
- Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
- You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.
- I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
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